"Hmm...I was thinking...if the killer really is trying to mess with your head, do you think that, anywhere you go, he’ll #rise up in a #flash as if you’re #summoning him?"
-Constance Harbor
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"It is kinda spooky out here, but at least it’s beautiful still. Look at the #harvest moon beaming down at us with its pumpkin #spicey #grin."
-Constance Harbor
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"He’s just #wandering around in this forest #stalking us and leaving #cryptic messages on dead bodies, letting us know that we’re next!"
-Constance Harbor
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"#fortunate for you, we just made all that stuff!"
"...the lights keep flickering..."
"Like it's haunted by a ghost?"
"…hear that? Sounds like a #claw…scraping…"
-Fran, Someone Elsewood, and Constance Harbor
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"There’s a #hint of fear in your voice. Like a #sharp pain is #bouncing around in your chest."
-Constance Harbor
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"You sound like a #toad croaking, all that snoring. I think the #thunder is more tolerable."
"Where are we?"
"I decided to take a shortcut."
"Through this shifty #terrain?"
-Constance Harbor and Someone Elsewood
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"What is that #murky substance #dripping from the ceiling onto the back seat???"
"There is an #incorporeal presence in the cabin with you, sir."
-Someone Elsewood and C.A.R.
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"Down sets the #golden sun, taking with it all joy and hopefulness. Leaving us blanketed under a dark cloud of #bitter #despair."
-Constance Harbor
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"Don’t you just love this time of year? #dry leaves crunching under your feet, all the beautiful colors on the #map…and the #foreboding forest just calling everyone to their deaths…"
-Constance Harbor
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"It's dark...and cold...making me #shiver...
#stalk a killer, #dodge your death. Others may not be so fortunate."
-Constance Harbor
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"Last known location; #spooky forest. I’ll take this #path, you..."
"SPLIT UP!? This is a dangerous criminal..."
"And!? You think I’m some #helpless damsel in distress?"
-Constance Harbor and Someone Elsewood
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"Hey. Are you afraid of #spiders?"
"Of course not...but, what does this have to do with anythin-?"
"What about the #specter of your #gloomy past? Are you scared of that?"
-Constance Harbor and Someone Elsewood
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
"When the roosters #crow at #sundown, that’s when you know you’re in a weird #dream or something, right?"
-Bruce Machete
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#spooktober #inktober #vsscollab #tuesdayfiction
October was spookier (more hectic) than I thought it'd be, but I managed to do...half of a thing? 😅 Hopefully I can finish the audio special soon. Chalk it up with the many other year-end goals I've given myself. 😓
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“Edgar Allen Poe was a storyteller who lived thousands of sols ago.”
Wisp couldn’t believe it. A grave for an Earthian, here, in Pangu.
“How did it get here?” they asked.
Laughing, father said, “it’s only pretend. There’s probably something waiting to pop out and get you.”
#vsscollab #WispHalloween
The next room had strange terrain, large round lumps of dirt and funny shaped stones.
“What is R.I.P?” Wisp asked.
“It means rest in peace. Some Earthians buried the dead in large wood boxes, deep underground.”
Astonished, Wisp asked, “what is Edgaar All-en Poe?”
#vsscollab #WispHalloween
Wisp considered the drinks carefully, blue, purple, and yellow-orange, murky in the strange red light.
They decided the purple one must be juice. A quick brave drink, and they spat it right back out.
“You are in luck child, the blue would have changed your shape.”
#vsscollab #WispHalloween
Wisp’s eyes grew wide as a green face with a long, bumpy nose greeted them. Cackling, “Try my brew, one is bitter, one is sour, and one is sweet. Drink the wrong one and you’ll turn into a newt.”
Wisp hesitated, then stomped a foot against the floor.
“I’ll try one.”
#vsscollab #WispHalloween
Father laughed from behind them, but Wisp kept their attention ahead. There was another curtain, and a figure moving behind it. They grabbed father’s hand, their heart pounding with foreboding. With determination, they stepped forward to face the unknown spook.
#vsscollab #WispHalloween
A dark hall, then a curtain. Wisp looked to their left, a red eerie light.
“I think this is the actual scary stuff!"
“Let’s find out," father said.
Through the doorway and suddenly an icy breeze, a moan whispering on it.
“It’s Simmah!” Wisp said happily, with a shiver.
#vssCollab #WispHalloween
“Hello little one,” came a spooky voice from somewhere in the gloom.
A light flicked on and Wisp swung towards it. Dark brown eyes rimmed by black makeup smiled down at them.
“I’m not scared,” Wisp informed the eyes.
They heard a chuckle. “Scares are to your right.”
#vsscollab #WispHalloween
Wisp walked into Pangu’s Fortress, through a circular exterior, across grass, and into the central hall.
The interior was drenched in lightless gloom. Father opened the door and Wisp stepped into smoky haze.
They spread their arms out, fingers splayed. “It’s so pretty.”
#vsscollab #WispHalloween
It was sundown and Wisp was excited. The Earthian Re-enactment Society had set up their annual Haunted House. It was their first visit. They were only five sols, but father had said they were old enough. He'd warned that it might be scary.
“I’m not scared of anything!"
#vsscollab #WispHalloween
